Melitta Business Service Center
PDF DownloadThe Melitta Business Service Center pools administrative tasks at Group level. In addition to shaping the operational HR and accounting processes, these tasks include strategic purchasing, business process management, business intelligence, and IT. The aim is to simplify, standardize, and align the Group’s processes and systems in order to enhance flexibility and efficiency while also establishing the prerequisites for Group-wide digitization.
Hauptstandort
Minden, Germany
Managing Director
Stefanie Bohnhorst
Our strategy
As a partner to the operating and corporate divisions, the Melitta Business Service Center aims to create added value and exploit synergies, thus making a decisive contribution to the Melitta Group’s future viability and diversity. It focuses on creating transparency regarding the Group’s various processes, requirements, and systems, as well as standardizing and automating them. The Melitta Business Service Center is expected to make a significant contribution to cost optimization, while at the same time providing expert advice and innovative ideas. It also supports the implementation of the Group’s sustainability goals, for example with regard to procurement processes, employee recruitment, and the promotion of remote working.
Market and business trends in 2021
The Melitta Business Service Center continued to expand its portfolio of services and optimize numerous processes in the fiscal year 2021. Substantial investments were made in all areas of IT in order to achieve the Group-wide harmonization and standardization targets. The fiscal year was also shaped by the effects of the pandemic, preparations for the roll-out of new ERP software, as well as measures to ensure supply capability and limit cost increases in the procurement markets.
Outlook 2022
In the fiscal year 2022, the Melitta Business Service Center will focus on implementing initiatives to drive forward the level of digitization across the Group and make processes more efficient. These include, for example, projects to harmonize processes in Finance and Human Resources. Measures to increase IT security are also planned, as are new initiatives to recruit skilled workers. With regard to purchasing, the Melitta Business Service Center anticipates that the current difficulties in procurement markets will continue.
